I often find and save links and articles that I mean to share. Sometimes they become part of a larger, cohesively-themed post, or sometimes part of one of my “Short Notes” posts. And then there are these — assorted things that I’ve collected for which there’s just not much to say, or for which there hasn’t been much written. I’ll add comment and/or context as best I can, but most of these stories just are what they are.

¶ A sad reminder that Mariupol is still a tragedy in progress: New graves appear in yards of Mariupol every day – ukrinform.net

¶ Like I said, a tragedy, and there are always people around making it worse: Russians invaders, collaborators selling humanitarian aid in Mariupol – ukrinform.net

¶ Ukraine war: ‘Almost every family has lost someone close to them’ – BBC News

¶ I’ve mentioned the filtration camps in the past, but never really wrote about what they do. Here’s a fairly detailed story from some of the people who have survived the “filtration” process: ‘The Russians said beatings were my re-education’ – BBC News

¶ Not an article, just a Twitter post that showed up today and, for obvious reasons, pisses me off no end. I have no doubt that in Russian state media reports, the mural will be attributed to a grateful Mariupol citizen: